Sunday Lecture: This Old House: Researching Your Home

Sunday Lecture: "This Old House: Researching Your Home"
Sunday, October 5, 2025
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Smyrna Library, Meeting Room
Light refreshments will be served.

Architectural Historians Rebekah Helfgot and Jennifer Corcoran will discuss how to research the history of your house. They will explain how you can explore the physical and social history of your home or neighborhood and what resources are available to you. They will present research on two local houses as examples and will explain how you can find similar information for your home. There will also be time for questions to get your research started.

Speaker biographies:

Jennifer Corcoran is an architectural historian and NEPA planner for Jacobs Engineering. She has a Master’s degree in Heritage Preservation from Georgia State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design from Florida State University. She primarily works on environmental and cultural resource documentation for GDOT projects. She lives in a compact Ranch house in Cheney Woods and has been a Smyrna resident for 19 years. She is married and has one child at Campbell High School plus one pup named Apollo. Her favorite thing about Smyrna is living in a walkable neighborhood with school, restaurants, and entertainment close by.

Rebekah Helfgot is an architectural historian for AECOM. She has a Master’s degree in Historic Preservation and a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and History, from the University of Georgia. She works on architectural history surveys and historic evaluations for GDOT projects. She lives in a twenty-first century townhouse in Montclair and has been a Smyrna resident for 4 years. She is married and shares her space with 2 cats, Zoe and Eliot. Her favorite thing about Smyrna are the city events and facilities.


Sunday Lectures are sponsored by the Friends of Smyrna Library.

You may also like the following events from Friends of Smyrna Library:

• Next Friday, 18th July, 10:30 am, Adult Craft Workshop: DIY Travel Journals & Bookmarks in Smyrna
• This month, 23rd July, 02:00 pm, Adult Workshop: Snakes of Georgia in Smyrna
• This month, 25th July, 11:00 am, Summer Reading Finale: Mini Golf in Smyrna

Also check out other Meetups in Smyrna.